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China's customs suspended imports of all aquatic products from Japan on the day Japan began releasing treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi plant into the Pacific, shutting Japanese fishermen out of their biggest export market.

In the first dispute under the post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement, an arbitration tribunal upheld the science behind the UK's North Sea sandeel closures and the Scottish ban, but found the English ban disproportionate to EU vessels' access rights.

China resumed imports of Japanese aquatic products from all but ten prefectures, including Fukushima and Tokyo, nearly two years after its total ban, with exporters required to re-register with Chinese customs.

Weeks after the first shipments resumed, China told Japan it would suspend imports of Japanese seafood, its foreign ministry saying Japanese seafood would find 'no market' in China after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Taiwan.

Iceland's government plans to put a bill permanently banning commercial whaling before the Althing, which would close the legal route for fin whaling despite the five-year licences issued in 2024 and leave Norway and Japan as the only whaling nations.